The developers are actively supporting third-party services in which skins can be used as stakes.
Skins for weapons Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has evolved in a separate market inside the game: someone just buys them on the Steam community market, someone with passion beats out of your cases, and someone uses betting on eSports. The latter fact has caused the American, Michael and John McLeod (Michael John McLeod) a number of serious questions.
McLeod filed a lawsuit against Valve for “illegal online gambling market”, which blooms in CS:GO. According to Michael, the skins — it’s like chips in a casino, which are valuable, and which can without any problems be exchanged for real money. Use it on any third-party sites where skins are taking in bets during the competition. The money in this gambling business very serious: in total there’s $ 2.3 billion, assures Macleod with a link to the article in Bloomberg.
Michael believes that Valve deliberately indulges rates: skins one way or another is in the Steam ecosystem, where each monetary transaction generates income the company’s Gabe Newell (Gabe Newell). In most CS:GO casino no, of course not, but the authors allow you to bind the profile to Steam with things from the shooter to third-party websites, on which runs the main action. In addition, most of these sites often don’t even ask for proof of age, so that gambling games can connect minors. And it already smells gross violation of the law.
McLeod admits that he is betting in CS:GO a few times and lost money on it. Michael wants to shake off the Valve uncertain compensation for damages, and the lawyers want to issue the case as a class action, that is to connect to the hearing and other affected users.
